Microsoft Looks to Boost Surface With Big Discounts for Schools

It turns out that Microsoft’s Windows in the Classroom Surface Experience Project was just the beginning of the company’s efforts to push its new tablet into the education market.
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Surface Makes Microsoft a Top 5 Tablet Vendor … With 1.8 Percent Market Share

Research firm IDC says Microsoft shipped about 900,000 Surface RT and Surface Pro tablets in the first quarter of the year.
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BlackBerry’s Heins: Tablets Are Just Temporary in Mobile Evolution

“We continue to evaluate our tablet strategy, but we are not making any shifts in that strategy in the short term.”
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iPad Edges Kindle Fire to Top J.D. Power Tablet-Satisfaction Rankings Again

Apple wins again, but not by so much.
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The Netbook Is on Its Last Legs

Wait — people still buy netbooks?
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Microsoft Gives Surface RT to Europe for Valentine’s Day

Three months after debuting its new Surface RT in the United States, Microsoft is is increasing the device’s overseas availability. The company said today that on February 14 it will launch the RT in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. Still no word on when the RT’s more powerful Surface Pro sibling will hit Europe, though it is due to arrive at market in North America tomorrow.

Of Course Nokia Is Building a Tablet

“We haven’t announced tablets at this point, but it is something we are clearly looking at very closely.”
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Well, Maybe Someone Will Buy the Surface Pro …

Will enterprise dig the Surface Pro? Microsoft better hope so.
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Surface Barely Ripples Web Traffic

Microsoft Surface users generate less than one percent of all North American tablet traffic. Surprised?
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Lack of Distribution Is “Killing” Surface

No, Microsoft’s not selling one million Surface RTs this quarter.
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Microsoft Taking Things Slow With Surface, Says Ballmer

Microsoft’s Ballmer: Surface Is the Tablet Consumers Really Want

Apple CEO: Microsoft’s Surface Is Probably Terrible

Apple: No Problem — The Apology Ads Can Come Out of That $1 Billion Damage Award

HP’s 2013 Smartphone Plans: Start Thinking About One

HP Is Just Fine With Microsoft’s Surface Tablet, Thank You

Acer to Microsoft: Think Twice About Surface, or Else

Microsoft: Okay, Maybe We Are Alienating PC Makers With Surface

More Microsoft Stores Means More Surface Showrooms

Ballmer: “Surface Is Just a Design Point”

Microsoft Partner Acer Says Surface Will Sink

Kindle Fire Not Exactly Burning Up U.S. Tablet Market

Windows 8 Plus Office Could Equal Success for Microsoft Tablets